Jason Smithers, MD
Surgical Critical CarePediatric General Surgery
Highlights
Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
- All Children's Specialty Physicians
About Jason Smithers
Primary Academic Title
Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery
Johns Hopkins Physician
Background
Dr. Smithers is an associate professor of surgery and director of the Esophageal and Airway Treatment (EAT) Program in the Department of Surgery at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital since 2019. He was honored for Innovations in Clinical Care at the Johns Hopkins Medicine Clinical Awards for 2020. As a leader in both innovation and expertise for pediatric thoracic surgery, he and his team see patients from all over the United States and internationally. The team also makes several invited trips per year around the country and world for lectures and conferences, in addition to helping patients and teaching other surgical teams regarding complex esophageal and airway surgical techniques in the operating room.
Dr. Smithers previously served as assistant professor of surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital from 2009-2019, as part of their groundbreaking EAT program. His clinical specialties are congenital and acquired conditions of the esophagus and airway, vascular rings, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), surgical critical care, and minimally invasive surgery.
He earned his medical degree from Albany Medical College and completed his residency in general surgery at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland. He served as fellow in pediatric surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital after completing a research fellowship and a surgical critical care fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. He also completed a global surgery clinical fellowship at Harvard Medical School.
Locations
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287
- Get Directions
- phone: 410-955-5000
- fax: 410-955-5001
- Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
- 501 6th Avenue South, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
- Get Directions
- phone: 727-898-7451
- fax: 727-898-7452
Expertise
Education
- Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital, Pediatric Surgery(General Surgery), 2009
- Residency: Oregon Health & Science University Hospital, General Surgery, 2007
- Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital, Surgical Critical Care, 2005
- Medical Education: Albany Medical College, Medicine, MD, 1999
Board Certifications
- Pediatric Surgery: American Board of Surgery, 2010
- Surgical Critical Care: American Board of Surgery, 2008
- Surgery (General Surgery): American Board of Surgery, 2008
Insurance
- Aetna (Commercial)
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- Florida Community Care
- Florida Medicaid
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- Medicare
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